Recent content by loflyby

Good for you and happy you have your drone back!!! If you happen to follow videographer Billy Kyle in YouTube you may find a similar event that happened to him while flying the Skydio 2. The common scenario for his event was calm crystal clear waters pretty much like yours. There's been a lot of...

athearnsd45, I ran into a similar situation. Look at the Marie Kerr park depicted in the lower left corner of the FAA ArcGIS map, the park is within the boundaries of the 400 feet grid, less than 1 mile from a Class D airspace (showed in blue), with an airport without LAANC capability. What I...

You do as you please. It’s a free world. Don’t bring patronizing words to tell me what to do or imply I have to understand better the world of physics to express my opinions. Have a nice life.

The amount of responses and scenarios to answer this question illustrates how complex this issue is. I’m going to tell you what I do. I fly a P4, I run a preflight checklist that includes to calibrate the compass. So I always calibrate the compass before the first flight of the day. You have to...

All we can say here is subjective unless we know all the facts. With that being said, I assume this individual advertising for a drone service knows about the potential of the machine, I mean a basic understanding that it’s not a toy but a tool. So, assuming ignorance about its use is not...

Thanks, I know what you are talking about, those motors are brushless so they use ‘sensors’ per say built in the rotor which in conjunction with the ESC (electronic speed control) switch on-off the motor. But you’re right I haven’t crashed and destroy the gimbal to be able to see the motor inside.

Thanks for your time to answer my question. Assuming you’re talking about the obstacle sensors could you elaborate a little more on how these sensors interact with the gimbal so I can understand the erroneous intermittent behavior of the gimbal? I forget to clarify I haven’t crashed or hard...

Pilots!!!! HELP. My P4 Gimbal started to "Twitch" in the yaw axis. I've done several gimbal calibrations and resets to factory the gimbal settings but no help. Any ideas? My info: All sensors okay, wind calm, full battery, iPad mini 5th generation used as monitor, all latest firmware loaded...

Thanks for the feedback. Happy landings!

EU's Galileo global navigation satellite system nears 100 hours of downtime. Please be mindful this can impact drone operations for reliable GPS signal. Follow: https://www.zdnet.com/article/european-gps-satellites-have-been-down-for-four-days-in-mysterious-outage/

Thanks for your reply. Yes, I filmed in 4K @24FPS. If you’re planning going seriously into YouTube or commercial Drone filming a powerful high grade gaming liquid cooled computer is a MUST HAVE. I’m not there yet so I can’t give recommendations or insights of what computer you need for video...

Did you do an update to the app, or any software upgrade to the P4 recently? If so, try to reverse to a previous version and see if it helps.

I used an iPad mini 2nd generation to fly a Phantom 4 and started to have recurrent problems while flying. Mainly two problems, screen freeze up and screen turned all green. I did all kind of things to resolve the problems, for instance I unloaded all the applications and few photos I had in the...

I operate similarly, I’m an AMA member, I hold a 107 certificate, and use AirMap to log ALL MY RECREATIONAL FLIGHTS outside my home base club. I bet you a lot of experienced pilots as well as novices don’t know you can use AirMap to report/record your recreational flights. Additionally, before...

Certainly this issue needs everyone involved in flying DJI products to be aware of. I want to mention this from my own experience flying the Phantom and using an iPad mini: DJI GO App is an extremely capable and very demanding App. I used to have a lot of “green screens” and CPU overloads until...